Configure Virtual Machine Communication Interface Firewall

You can restrict VMCI usage to a subset of VMCI-based services on each virtual machine. For example, you can allow certain virtual machines to access VMCI services and deny access to others for security reasons.

Currently, VMCI devices support guest to host communication. A virtual machine can communicate with VMCI services through the following means:

ESXi hypervisor

Services installed on the host operating system in the form of a vmkernel module